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 the online gallery of speculative artist
William McAusland.

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June 18 2008
Princess Avalon, our new 5 month old baby, has settled into our house well and all is good. You'd think having a  new baby around would mean no sleep and getting no work done, but I have been remarkably productive. Perhaps it's the fact that I am staying closer to home, and well, baby sleeps a lot and my wife has time off from work... and well, she does most of the baby care.

    While I've done a pile of inks for Goodman Games and their upcoming PC Pearls book, plus some inks and colour work for assorted emerging tabletop game publishers, whose stuff I'll show closer to when these companies release their products, I have also made a huge dent in the mountain of interior illustrations for Outland Arts and their upcoming release of The Mutant Epoch RPG. Here are some samples of that:

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March 2008
I've been busy these last few months, working with Outland Arts on some colour imagery for upcoming Excavator Monthly e-magazine issues: Mutant Spider Attack and Retreating Excavator) as well as getting a big chunk of grayscale interior work accomplished for the Hub Rules core game book.

Here I have included a link to an image which goes along with a section on tabletop Roleplaying gaming.

     Also we have a wrap around cover for the Mutant Epoch's first published Community setting, Pitford; Gateway to the Ruins, which is a closer look at the walled desert fort listed in the Crossroads Region book.

       During the evenings, when not madly trying to complete a deadline on some graphic design or other illustration assignment. I've been experimenting with more digital art, and produced a pair of ugly humanoid baddies, the Orc Champion and the Goblin Warrior, both for my own portfolio.

       Besides commercial illustration and design, of which there has been a lot of lately, I've been busy inking for some more with Goodman Games on their GM Gems book, done some work for Ryan Henry and Jamie Gooch, and been doing plenty of sketching.

      Of course the biggest news I have is the birth of my new daughter, Avalon! No news could surpass this right now, and man, what a great baby thus far! Mom and the other kids are all doing well and it is quite the busy household we now have.

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winter 2007/08/ Besides the continuous work I do for Outland Arts, both for the Fantasy Clip Inks stock art sets and their upcoming tabletop roleplaying game called The Mutant Epoch, I am working on some art for a RPG and fiction writer,  new concept art, experimental digital paintings, some real life oils and acrylics, and other fun stuff. My main goal right now, however, is to get this huge web site up and running and all the sections rich with content. Following that, I'll be seeking new Fantasy and Science fiction clients by way of both direct mail and email as well as assorted web marketing activities.
     While I also do a lot of contemporary illustration, both as stock imagery and as assignments, I am eager to increase the percentage of all my client work from about 50% of what I do to 80% by years end. I was doing some graphic design, which I appreciated, but found it was not really conducive to the sort of creative lifestyle I like to lead, especially with my 4th child on the way in the new year and the fact that I will probably be working on the kitchen table a lot come January, and keeping odd hours...making it difficult to meet local design clients. Furthermore, I found that doing too much graphic design meant a lot of hours on the computer doing layout and fixing up text, which involved the mouse instead of a pencil or my Wacom pen-stylus... in short, design was wrecking my hands and keeping me from drawing and painting. It had to end.

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